. >>> delaware democrat senator chris coons and ukrainian ambassador to the u.s. oksana markarova will join us. >>> we'll take a look at a new push by the nation's governors to help children's mental health with utah's republican governor spencer cox. >>> after a brutal week of blistering temperatures, can it get any hotter? the answer is yes. nasa's chief scientist kate calvin will be here to explain why. >>> it's all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >>> good morning and welcome to "face the nation." we're going to take a closer look at the brutal heat that has settled in across the country during a later point in this broadcast, but this spoiler alert, the extreme weather is expected to intensify. >>> another issue that's heating up, trade disputes between the u.s. and china. janet yellen is the second cabinet secretary to make a goodwill mission to beijing in the last few weeks. we spoke with her exclusively before she departed china. at the top of your meeting with the chinese vice premiere he acknowledged one of those awkward moments and mentioned the chine

>> well, president biden's advisers and allies like senator chris coons ultimately don't believe thatable enough to take on president biden in the democratic primary, but that certainly may not stop some people from entering that primary. as you mentioned, congressman dean phillips of minnesota has been quite vocal about the fact that he doesn't believe that president biden should run for re-election in part due to his age, and he is now toying around with the idea of possibly entering the race as a challenger to the president. it's unclear whether phillips will take any of those steps to formally into the race, but it comes as we take a look at the polls, where president biden is vastly ahead of those that are currently challenging him in the field, like robert f. kennedy and marianne williamson. something that the president also has is the full backing of the democratic national committee. the committee and his campaign are working hand in hand in all of their efforts when it comes to advertisements, fund-raising as wl. and so far, we haven't seen any inkling or suggestion that ther

. >> now, senator chris coons, democrat of delaware, and a texas republican john cornyn discuss national security and foreign policy efforts at the aspen security forum in colorado. this is 45 minutes. >> it is a great honor and pleasure to be seated up here with this group of senators. not only from, two from the senate forms relations committee, but also a bipartisan group. as joe and i told us, a couple of days ago on stage, the asset security group was set up for bipartisanship. it's nice to have a bipartisan group up here. i brought my pen just in case. senator coons, you try to warn me you would try to scare me on stage, if anything breaks out, i am armed. let me start with you. you are the ranking member of the senate foreign affairs, foreign relations committee. a job that the former delaware senator, who was now on the other end of pennsylvania, used to have. i want to start with you and talk about something that was discussed with secretary blinken, which is the counteroffensive. by way of context, senator risch was one of the most outspoken senators in advocating for not only

this is senator chris coon cans, democrat from delaware, you know, saying this is all bunk, it's a witcht. let's listen to him. >> they've come forward with not one is red of evidence tying president biden to any of this. >> this is a witch hunt. there's never been any evidence that joe biden has compromised his office. >> all right. so that's senator murphy using the witch hunt framework. you've been following this, we all have been. suddenly this feels a little bit more like watergate to me with someone high up. not whistleblowers who are very important to investigating, but linked with the principals. what's the all about, and and what do you think's going to happen. >> >> i think devon archer knows he's getting thrown under the bus by the bidens, and burnham financial group, which is what he is being charged be, being a part of this group, he said himself it was hunter biden who was the vice chairman of this group. i think the reason this matters, it's so important that they were selling access apparently to the white house. not only when president biden was vice president of the uni

gle let's bring in chris coons. senator, thanks for joining us.trong, the administration is spurring u.s. manufacturing and creating good paying jobs. in a recent cnn poll, 66% of amicans say they disappear with the handling of the economy. and 77% say our current economic conditions are poor. some of the factors driving this is the cost of living is up and people might feel the president is out of touch with the american people on the state of the economy. >> jake, the reality on the ground is we are seeing the strongest job growth in decades. we have the lowest unemployment in 50 years. just this week the announcement there were half a million new jobs created by the private sector in the month of june, overall 13 million jobs created by our private sector in the two and a half years president biden has been in office. that's the strongest recovery of any advanced economy on earth from the depths of the pandemic. so yes, there is a gap between the polling, the perception, and the reality on the ground and in the daily lives of americans. if i wa

we'll have interviews with senator chris coons and republican will hurd. >>> coming up in about 30 minutes from now, we'll talk to nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston for our weekly segment and take a look at what one recent poll is revealing about both donald trump and joe biden. >>> and lebron james gave us an update today on his son, bronny, five days after he went into cardiac arrest. ♪ ♪ lebron posted this video today of bronny playing the piano with the caption "keep going, we're here right with you every step of the way." the 18-year-old collapsed monday during basketball practice at usc. doctors discharged him from the hospital. he's now resting at home. he will continue to undergo tests to determine what caused him to go into cardiac arrest. >>> excitement is building for our women's national soccer team. the team plays its group stage finale with a match against portugal tuesday morning. the u.s. leads group e after they tied with the netherlands, and with three points secured against vietnam. portugal still remains in contention for a spot in the knockout rounds heading

joining us tonight delaware democratic senator chris coons and north dakota republican senator kevinnks for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> bret: you are all working on something called the prove it act. which essentially does what? >> it proves it. it demonstrates what i think we already suspect if not know and that is that american businesses are put on a global disadvantage when other countries produce the same and manufacture the same products we do that are carbon intensive. what we want to do is prove that american industry is the cleanest industry in the world. >> bret: some stats on that. million metric tons, united states 258. china 1081. if you look at this chart of annual emissions, china goes through the roof in recent years this bill is tilted that way. >> my hope lay the foundation to better protect american manufacturing. we manufacture steel and aluminum, glass and cement here in the united states in a low emissions way. the chinese, the russians, the indians, other countries ship their products into our economy that are much higher emissions products. and if

i'll talk to biden campaign national co-chair senator chris coons of delaware. >>> and is age just aber? senator mitch mcconnell freezes mid-sentence in a news conference, putting a spotlight once again on the advancing age of many of our nation's leaders. >> the president calling to check on me? >> how old is too old to serve? >> joining me for insight and analysis are leigh ann caldwell of the washington post upon amy walter of the cook political report. fais shakir, political adviser to bernie sanders and stephen hayes, editor of the dispatch. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. our democracy faces yet another stress test, one arguably it hasn't faced since reconstruction. an authoritarian minded, allowing for a peaceful transfer of power. the answer on that test was we barely passed it. donald trump put the nation again on a collision course between partisan politics and a rule of law. in a superseding case, special counsel jack

that is the concern from a lot of democrats, but you are seeing some top democrats, like senator chris coons should just try to get these promotions confirmed one way or another. >> then the other thing that's running up against the august recess is the fact that the house just passed their version of the defense spending bill, the ndaa. now the senate is working on its version. congress is supposed to go on recess in august. we know how motivated they are to keep that date on the calendar. what are the chances they get this all done in time? >> right. well, to start, the senate isn't back until tomorrow night, so they have very little time this week to finish all of this up. they have to do a bunch of amendment votes. in the end, the product the senate passes is going to be much more bipartisan than the product that passed out of the house. it has to be more bipartisan. the nature of the senate is you need 60 votes for this. this is going to be a blowout vote in the end. really what they have to do right now is push through all of these amendment votes and try to reject these more controver

. >> delaware senator chris coons defended the investigation into hunter and president biden. >> there has been a five year investigation. five years by a trump appointed u.s. attorney, this investigation started during the trump administration. they have come forward with not one shred of evidence tying to presidenpresent invited to any . >> devon archer is expected to testify tomorrow in the closed-door session with the oversight committee we are told a transcript will be released shortly after the interview. eric: it more with the marsha blackburn on this, lucas thank you. arthel: lucas and eric right now are going to bring in phil holloway a former assistant district attorney as well as a former police officer and legal advisor to the georgia sheriff's department. so let's jump in work going to do hunter bided and president trump let's start with hunter bided first. judge accused someone from the law firm representing hunter of calling the clerk's office and allegedly misrepresenting their identity. the person who made the call said it was a misunderstanding by the person who took

. >> reporter: delaware senator chris coons defended the investigation into hunter biden and says presidenten is innocent. >> look, i think the hiccup in the delaware district courthouse will get ironed out pretty quickly, and i don't think president biden needs to say anything more than he has. >> house republicans are going to accuse him -- >> they are. they're going to accuse him of all sorts of stuff. >> you don't think he needs to, hey, despite what you hear, just so you know, i didn't -- i don't do bids with my son or my brother? >> i think he's been perfect ifly clear. >> devon arch's expected to testify tomorrow morning in that closed door session with the house oversight committee. we're told a transcript will be released horsily after the interview is. aishah: i know they've been worried about whether he was going to show up, to could this prevent devon archer from testifying tomorrow? >> >> reporter: so far james comer says he will appear tomorrow morning, but it certainly is a new wrinkle. it's it's not clear whether the u.s. marshals are going to set up a stakeout -- aishah: do

joining me now is democratic senator chris coons who serves on the foreign relations and judiciary committeesvotes on the defense authorization bill. senator, this latest incident does raise questions concerning his health. i don't know if you have been in meetings with him recently. we understand that he also had another fall after his fall and his concussion and recovery, another fall at the airport not too long ago. it clearly was a concerning incident yesterday. >> andandrea, i was just in a meeting with the prime minister of italy where senate republican leader mcconnell and our majority leader senator schumer led the meeting. senator mcconnell was engaged, was focused, asked good questions. i spoke with him on the floor last night after the incident that you just replayed. he seemed engaged and agile. it's important that he and president biden have a decades long relation celebrity page. as you saw in the clip, president biden called to just check on him and express his concerns, senator mcconnell had a witty response. he is someone who enjoys a relationship with president biden. there

you will hear from democrat chris coons reacting to this as well. >> if found guilty, yeah, i think congressly take something up. i think they are really far from figuring out what the realities there are. those are serious accusations which after we followed up. >> if the republicans want a sharp contrast that joe biden is delivering on infrastructure, on high quality manufacturing and making a stronger on the world stage, and they want to engage in political theater, an impeachment increases probably the best thing they could do to hurt their chances next fall. >> there certainly a gap here among republicans. i spoke to senate republicans who kicked this idea back to the house. they would be jurors in the senate. they are trying to keep their cards close to their vast. i spoke to trump supporters who were curious to answer the question on this. they said it will be bad for the country. they are using their resources to investigate biden and investigate the biden family. mccarthy argued that pursuing an impeachment theory would grant the more investigative powers to do just that. >> i appre

chuck will be joined by the biden's campaign chris coons of delaware and republican presidential candidatermer texas congressman, will hurd. >>> an american nurse and her child reportedly have been kidnapped in haiti. the faith-based organization where alix dorsainvil works says the pair were taken near port-au-prince on thursday. the state department says it is aware of the incident and is working now with haitian authorities. the suspected kidnapping happened the same day the u.s. embassy in haiti warned that nonessential americans should avoid traveling to that country. >>> beachgoers in new hampshire watched in shock as a small plane crashed in front of them just offshore. thankfully the pilot survived. dana griffin has more on a dangerous weekend in the skies. >> reporter: chaos in the sky. within hours multiple aviation crashes across the country. near hampton beach, new hampshire, this plane towing a banner, crash landed around noon in the ocean. >> we have an aircraft in the water out of the main beach. >> it was like something out of a movie. >> reporter: adam was there with his f

court justice neil gorsuch, national security adviser jake sullivan, ambassador susan rice, senator chris coons. we have with us, the judges has proudly mentored the u.s. attorney from south carolina, and there are many, many more. and there are a lot of truman scholars whose names you don't know, but i can guarantee we are better off for the work that they do. reflecting on the 75 years since president truman's executive order, we -- [inaudible] progress. and, yes, we acknowledge the journey if ahead in both today's military to our -- and our wider world with. we have a lot more work to do. and that is precisely why we have shared commitments to service and the democracy that we know is not a spectator sport. [inaudible] echoes in the courage and resolve of leaders who consistently charge the harder right than the easier wrong. the spirit of executive order 9981 remains a beacon for us to follow. attachment to the no -- not to historic past, but a guide to actively shaping a brighter, healthier, kinder, more inclusive, more just nation in the world. so thank you for all, all that that you do.

my choices would be senator shelby white house from rhode island, senator chris coons from delaware or braun from ohio and any combination of those two would make a fantastic ticket in my view for the democrats. host: thanks for the call, donald. we have been checking in with key states this hour. we go next to south carolina. she is a politics reporter for the greenville news. tell us about what is going on in south carolina now that it is in the democrat side, the first primary state. how much activity on the republican and democratic side are you seeing their? guest: good morning, first of all. on the republican side, we are seven months out from the republican primary. several candidates are making inroads in the state. earlier this month, we had former president trump. he came to pickens, a small town where he commanded an audience of close to 10,000 to 15,000 people. since then, we have a couple candidates making a comeback. we have ron desantis coming back tomorrow. to another small town on the border of north carolina, south carolina. on tuesday, he will go back to columbia to

my choices would be senator shelby white house from rhode island, senator chris coons from delaware or braun from ohio and any combination of those two would make a fantastic ticket in my view for the democrats. host: thanks for the call, donald. we have been checking in with key states this hour. we go next to south carolina. she is a politics reporter for the greenville news. tell us about what is going on in south carolina now that it is in the democrat side, the first primary state. how much activity on the republican and democratic side are you seeing their? guest: good morning, first of all. on the republican side, we are seven months out from the republican primary. several candidates are making inroads in the state. earlier this month, we had former president trump. he came to pickens, a small town where he commanded an audience of close to 10,000 to 15,000 people. since then, we have a couple candidates making a comeback. we have ron desantis coming back tomorrow. to another small town on the border of north carolina, south carolina. on tuesday, he will go back to columbia to